Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27
NEWSL4E TS.
Gathered From All Parts
of the Country.
Multum in Paryo.

Multum in Parvo.
The colored men Of New Orleans, La,
have q Blaine and Lincoln club.
Prof. John ii. Jackson has been ap-
pointed Principal Of the State Normal
school at Frankfort, KY.
Mrs. Phillis Holmes, colored, is living
in Louisville, Ky, aged 12o years. She
is totally blind and almost helpless.
Ike Weir, the Belfast Spider
thrashed two white men in Boston the
other day for insulting colored woman.
Mr.. Samuel Thompson, colored, is
travelling salesman for b: N. Walsh &
Co, clock manufacturers of Chicago,
I'll.
Miss Alice Taylor very efficient
young colored lady is employed ascopy-
ist in the Recorders Office at Chicago,
I'll.
Mr.. James Harris, colored, of Xenia,
Ohio, the inventor of wonderful fire
escape, has refused $4,000 for his in
yention.
Prof. D. A. Straker, colored, was adj
mitted to practice law in the United
States District Court at Detroit, Mich,
last week.
The first volume of sSThe History of
the A. M. p. Church written by Bishop
d. A. Payne will shortly make its
appearance.
Berea College, situated in the heart of
Kentucky has 251 colored and $50 white
students. One member of the faculty
is colored man.
Messrs. T. R. Holmes and G.. IT. Car
doza have been promoted to first class
clerkships in the Surgeon Generals
Office at Washington, D. G.
Mr.. Jas. D Reed, colored, Of Valley
Falls, Kan, aged nineteen has invented
a corn planter, a moving machine, a
cultivator and road scraper.
Rev. George g. Rowe, colored, pastor
of the Plymouth Congregational church
of Charleston, S. O., has just published
book of poems Of 113 pages.
Alexander Walker, colored prohibi-
ZIONIST speaker in Texas, was SO badly
beaten after making speech last week,
that he died Of his injuries.
Prof. Peter FL. Clark, of Cincinnati,
has been appointed principal Of the
Huntsville, Ala, Normal and Industrial
School, vice w II. Council, resigned.
Mr.. Henry Rector, colored. is surface
supe liant at Grape Creek, I'll. coal
mines. There are $50 colored miners
employed by the company operating
the mines.
Rockland county, r. =, is all torn up
because Miss Jennie Winter, white, the
daughter Of q Well-to-do citizen, recent
| ly married the man Of her choice
James Mann, colored
Peter Williams, colored, and w. R.
I.Swearengen, white, were tried in Edge
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Both Killed coiored men. Inc Wnlte
man was acqultted anu Inc coloreo MAI
convicted.
1 The Colored Methodlsts OF Austlh
Texas, have begun the erection OF g
college building to cost $15, 900. The
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